First Grade PLTW

 First grade students in PLTW have been working on creating their own stories. They choose the characters, setting, problem, and solution. Next, they illustrate the story in their science notebooks (PLTW "Launch Logs").

 Here, a student is working very diligently on his story's illustrations.

 When students have finished sketching four scenes of their story, they get an iPad and get on an app called Scratch, Jr. In this app, they can create the backgrounds and characters in their story, and they can also write simple computer programs to make their characters move, speak, hide and come back, and many other commands. First graders make their stories come to life using computer science! It is wonderful watching students' creativity take shape while using the tools of the 21st Century!

This student is choosing blocks, or "code", to give his character directions to move.